Playing cards



Patented Sept. 7, 1926.

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Application fiiea January e, .1926. serial No. 79,642.

a nature that the numbers and values of the cards in a given hand may readily be perceived even Vthough such hand is not arranged by suits Iin the customary manner,

In'the accompanying drawing, Flg. l is a face view of a hand of cards, for instance' in a game of bridge whist, fanned in the usual manner, and Fig. 2 is a face View of one of the cards of Fig. 1.

As clearly shown in the drawing, the indexes of the cards of two of the suits, 'one black and one red, consist of the us'ual pip and value desgnation and occupy the usual position or positions in the upper left-hand v corner or upper left-hand and lower right.-

hand corner of each card, while the indexes of the cards of the other two sultsconsist of value designations only, the plps being omlitted; the color of the valuedesignaton of the cards of such latter suitps is thetsame as vthat of the pips of the card tself, that is to say, the index numbers of the clubs and diamonds of the hand shown in Fig. 1 are respectively black andred. The Value indicators of all the. cards areplaced in corresponding corners and substantially the.

same dstance from the top and from the side margins of the Vcards so that when `a hand of these cards is fanned, the Centers Vthereof lie substantially in a line defining 'p the arc of a circle. As one of the red suits is thus provided with index pips and the other is provided with value indicators only and the colorlof such value indicator is red, the two suts although of the same color can readily be distinguished :when the hand is fanned even when' none of the major pips of the cards are visible. The same is true with respect to the two black suits. I therefore preserve all the advantages of the usual pack of playing cards providedl with indexes while i supplying the additional advantage that two vcards of the) same color but' diffor one another.

because of the similarity of color. By providing blank' spaces 'white or light-colored, vfor two of my suits' beneath the value indicators, I effect sucha great Contrast with 'the blackand red colors lrespectively of the index pips of the cards of the other'two sults, that the inexperienced player is much less liable tosuch confusion., The experiencedv player, onthe other hand, may, when fanning the cards, place. theside edges more closely together, asin most cases an inspectio'nv of the extreme left-hand portion of the value indicator will be sufficient to tell himl` the value of an otherwise hidden card, while the presence of a portion of a black or-red i pip belowA will immediately indicate one black or red suit and the absence 'of anyv color willV indicate the other suit whosecolor corresponds to that of the value mdicator.

which are each provided with an index near at least onecorresponding corner thereof, the indexes of the cards of the latter' two suits consisting of value indicators only, the value indicators of all the cards being spaced from the top margin of their Vrespective cards at approximately equal distances and V Otherwise the similarity between the exbeing of the same color as 'theipips Von their respective cards, v

In testimony whereofl 'have hereunto set my hand.

v CLIFFORD EDMUND ALBERT. 

